A paramedic who helped save the life of collapsed footballer Fabrice Muamba today told how life-saving defibrillators “need to be everywhere” to improve survival rates in London.
Pete Fisher spoke out as he was reunited with the former Bolton player at the launch of a London Ambulance Service campaign to get 1,000 more defibrillators installed in public places.
In his first newspaper interview, Mr Fisher told how he placed the defibrillator electrodes on Muamba’s chest as he lay on the pitch at Tottenham Hotspur after collapsing from a cardiac arrest in March 2012.
He said: “I remember watching the game and looking at Fabrice and he just fell to the floor. We spotted that something wasn’t right. There was no-one else around him. The Bolton doctor and physio ran on to the pitch, closely followed by the Tottenham Hotspur doctor and physio, and then us from the pitch retrieval team.
